KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Australia
Australia
Australia
United States
United States
Professor Gabriele Bammer
Gabriele Bammer is Professor of Integration and Implementation Sciences (i2S) at The Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra. She is developing the new discipline of Integration and Implementation Sciences to improve research strengths for tackling complex societal and environmental problems (see https://i2insights.org/i2s/) and she curates the popular Integration and Implementation Insights blog and toolkit (http://i2Insights.org). She is also the inaugural President of the Global Alliance for Inter- and Transdisciplinarity. In December 2024 she received the ANU’s most prestigious accolade, the Peter Baume Award, which “recognises eminent achievement and merit of the highest order.
Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite
Jeffrey Braithwaite, Professor of Health Systems Research, is Founding Director, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University. He is Past President of the International Society for Quality in Health Care. He consults to the WHO, OECD, and the UN. An international-regarded health systems researcher, he examines quality and safety, health sector reform; the future of healthcare to 2030; learning health systems; and healthcare and climate change. With 900 refereed contributions, 17 books, and 1,540 conference presentations, he has published in the New England Journal of Medicine, British Medical Journal, JAMA, The Lancet, The Lancet Psychiatry, and Nature Climate Change.
Dr Louise Byrne
Dr Louise Byrne has multiple, first-hand, life-changing adverse experiences which have profoundly impacted her life. Over 21 years Louise has worked in a broad variety of designated lived-living Experience roles. Louise’s seminal 16-year program of research has supported growth in understanding, awareness and valuing of lived experience workforces, nationally and internationally, and helps foster perspectives of lived experience work as a respected, credible, evidence-based discipline. Louise’s work as a strategic consultant, trainer and thought leader on the role and benefit of lived experience workforces, assists meaningful implementation of research findings and promotes evidence informed approaches to lived experience workforce development.
Professor Vikram Patel
Vikram Patel is the Paul Farmer Professor and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He also holds honorary professorships at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Public Health Foundation of India. He co-leads the department’s Mental Health for All lab and co-leads the GlobalMentalHealth@Harvard initiative. His work has focused on the burden of mental health problems across the life course, their association with social disadvantage, and the use of community resources for their prevention and treatment. He is a co-founder of the Movement for Global Mental Health, the Centre for Global Mental Health (at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine), the Mental Health Innovations Network, and Sangath, an Indian NGO which won the WHO Public Health Champion of India prize and the MacArthur Foundation’s International Prize. He is a Fellow of the UK's Academy of Medical Sciences and member of the US National Academy of Medicine. He served on the committee which drafted India’s first National Mental Health Policy and the WHO High Level Independent Commission for Non-Communicable Diseases. He co-led the Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health & Sustainable Development and the Lancet-World Psychiatric Association Commission on Depression. He has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellowship, the Chalmers Medal (Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene); the Sarnat Prize (National Academy of Medicine); the Pardes Humanitarian Prize (the Brain and Behaviour Research Foundation); the Klerman Senior Investigator Prize (the Depression and Bipolar Disorder Alliance); an Honorary OBE (UK Government); and the John Dirk Canada Gairdner Award in Global Health. He has been awarded honorary doctorates from Georgetown University, York University, Stellenbosch University and the University of Amsterdam. He was listed in TIME Magazine’s 100 most influential persons of the year in 2015.
Professor Sarah Hollingsworth (Holly) Lisanby
Sarah Hollingsworth “Holly” Lisanby, MD, DLFAPA, is the Founding Dean and Foundation Professor of the ASU School of Medicine and Medical Engineering and Professor Emeritus at Duke University. Dr. Lisanby was Founding Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Division of Translational Research and co-led NIH BRAIN Initiative teams supporting next generation neurotechology. Former JP Gibbons Endowed Professor and Chair of the Duke Department of Psychiatry, she founded the Brain Stimulation Divisions at Duke, Columbia, and NIMH. Her key accomplishments include pioneering magnetic seizure therapy (MST) as a rapidly acting antidepressant.
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